Compared to such brilliant spots of splendor as the Antilles or Ceylon, Capri is a mere rocky speck less than four miles in length, and not more than ten miles in circumference - It is divided into nearly equal halves by a lofty, and on one side precipitous moun tain, called Monte Solaro, which stretching from shore to shore leaves literally no natural land-communication between the two parts. There are also two entirely distinct communes 011 the island known by distinct names: Capri in the east, and Anacapri Upper Capri) in the center and the west. From Roman times there has been, as there still is, an ascent from Capri proper to the heights above, by a flight of 536 rude steps cut zigzag in the rocky face of the almost sheer precipice. But the inhabitants of the two communes have little intercourse or need of communication with each other. They are of different races. Their very dialects are different: The Caprians are Latin, vio lent in their religious prejudices, grasping and self asserting; the people of Anacapri, on the contrary, are of Greek stock, tolerant and easy-tempered.

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